It's the message, stupid: python & amqp

Summary

Description

Messaging is a well established domain in information technology and can
greatly improve the scalability and throughput of a system when employed
appropriately. Message queues can be used to achieve

spatial decoupling i.e. the systems that produce and consume messages may be deployed on different machines, networks, continents etc.

temporal decoupling i.e. a system can enqueue a message and carry on without waiting for the message consumer.

We use e.g. messaging in OpenQuake to distribute
calculations of seismic hazard and the
respective risk to human lives and infrastructure.

There is a huge number of messaging patterns identified in the
industry and a small selection of
these will be presented to whet your appetite :-)

AMQP is a fairly new and open messaging standard with
a number of freely available open source message brokers
(RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ,
qpid etc.) with different features and performance
trade-offs.

In the course of the presentation you will be - introduced to AMQP concepts
and jargon - introduced to available Python AMQP bindings (focussing on an
asynchronous (txAMQP) and a synchronous
variant (most likely kombu) - shown code
examples demonstrating how to use these Python bindings